Whine & Jerk Grilled Fruit Salad

Submitted by Elmotoo

"Invented for the Caribbean Grilling Challenge Zaar World Tour 3 by the Whine & Cheese Gang. This is a sweet-hot, spicy salad but the dressing is cooling to the tongue while still being perky from the lime. An adventure for your palate! Feel free to swap fruits around to suit yourself."

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 12
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 4 slice fresh pineapple, peeled, cored, cut 1/2-inch thick
• 1 mango, peeled & sliced into 1/4-inch slices
• 4 slice peeled papayas, cut 1/2-inch thick
• 1 peach, unpeeled & quartered
• 7.39 ml caribbean jerk seasoning (paste, not liquid or powder)
• 236.59 ml fresh blueberries
• 236.59 ml fresh strawberries, sliced
• 1 small just-ripe banana, thickly sliced

• dressing

• 236.59 ml vanilla yogurt
• 1 lime, juice and zest of
• 29.58 ml sugar
• 0.25 ml salt

directions

1. Very, very lightly schmear the pineapple, mango, papaya & peach with the jerk seasoning. A little goes a LONG way! Unless you like blistering spice, that is.
2. Grill both sides until heated through & have nice grill marks. Let cool slightly then cut into bite sized pieces. Place in a medium bowl.
3. Add the rest of the fruit & stir gently.
4. Combine well the yogurt, lime zest & juice, sugar & salt. Add to the salad and stir together gently until well combined.

Reviews

[Mandy]

I've never had anything jerk flavoured before so was quite excited to try it. I used my recipe #232531 that I posted just for the tour. It's winter here so I used mainly seasonal ingredients but used the jerk paste on the pineapple & peaches. I was quite surprised the heat of the paste & the sweetness of the fruit go really well together & the lime yoghurt refreshing on the palate.

 

[BarbryT]

In all fairness I am not going to rate this. It started at a definite disadvantage with me...since I am not, in general, a fan of jerk flavoring and don't like mangos much. But I thought I would give both one more try. It is a very pretty salad; I do like the dressing and undoubtedly will use it on other fruit salads. The very-slightly jerked grilled pineapple, by itself, was delicious. The recipe is creative; I applaud your entry in ZWT3.

 

[AmandaInOz]

This was very different. I used pineapple, mango, strawberries and blueberries. I liked the combo of the spice with some of the fruit (like the pineapple and mango, but I found it a little off putting with the berries (especially the blueberries). Loved the dressing though! Thanks guys!

 

[jonesies]

When I first tasted this salad, I wasn't quite sure if I liked it or not. So...I tasted some more, and some more...and well I ended up eating about 3/4 of the entire recipe! Made without strawberries because the grocery was out of them and the only thing I didn't add to the sauce was the zest of the lemon...it's a phobia of mine, don't ask. Oh, and I didn't cut everything up after grilling, just placed on a plate, dumped the sauce in the middle and went to town! I really like the little "wang" of heat you get after a bite. Hmmm...maybe I should taste test the rest, just to be sure....

 

[Muffin Goddess]

This was a very interesting fruit salad (well, that's why I picked it). I really enjoyed the whole grilled fruit thing, and I loved the lime dressing, but I was a teensy bit ooked out by the taste of onion/garlic with my fruit. The heat was fine for me, but I think if I were to make this again with the spice, I would alter the jerk seasoning to be strictly spicy/sweet, without the savory elements (I would definitely make this recipe again minus the jerk paste, though). I'm glad that I tried this, because it really is a good and different recipe (bonus for thinking outside the box here), but it needs a tiny bit of alteration to gain my fifth star (of course, it could just have been my choice of jerk seasoning. If so, sorry guys!) :) Good job, nonetheless!